Umaji Village

Look up at a cedar till headbands fall.

Hachimaki-otoshi, Senbonyama

Photo by Dokudami (CC BY-SA 4.0)

01 ／ Konrinji Yakushi Hall

Built without rafters,with board eaves, a rare method.

Konrinji is a Koyasan Shingon temple in the mountains of eastern Kochi. Its Yakushi Hall, a late Muromachi building, is a hipped-roof structure of three by four bays that omits rafters and uses board eaves, a rare method. An ink inscription dates the shrine inside to Eisho 15 (1518).

Designated an Important Cultural Property in 2002
Inner shrine dated Eisho 15 (1518)
Three by four bays

02 ／ Hirase Tunnel, Kawaguchi Tunnel, Ochiai Bridge

Two forest-railway tunnels and a bridgebecame Important Cultural Properties in 2009.

Of the former Yanase Forest Railway facilities, three in Umaji, Hirase Tunnel (1911), Kawaguchi Tunnel (1913) and Ochiai Bridge (1925), were designated Important Cultural Properties in 2009. Kawaguchi Tunnel and Ochiai Bridge serve as village road facilities; Hirase Tunnel is closed to entry because of the risk of collapse.

Designated Important Cultural Properties in 2009
Kawaguchi Tunnel: 1913, 89.9m long
Ochiai Bridge: 1925, 37.0m long

03 ／ Nomura-style Locomotive

Restored after the forest railway closed,the locomotive is on working display.

野村式機関車.JPG — Photo by Kamezukakofun (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Nomura-style No. L69 was built by the Nomura-gumi Kosakujo works. It hauled timber on the Yanase Forest Railway in the mid-Showa period and, after the line closed in 1963 (Showa 38), was displayed in a park in the Yanase district. Restored in 1989 (Heisei 1), it is now on working display at Yanase Maruyama Park.

Nomura-style L69
Closed 1963 (Showa 38)
Restored 1989 (Heisei 1)

Living here

From a forestry village to a yuzu village.

about 1,000 people
Rural district town

Umaji consists of two districts, Umaji and Yanase. The village's statistics volume (June 2008) records that 96% of its total area is forest, and 75% of that forest is national forest. Full-scale yuzu growing began around 1963 (Showa 38), when forestry had started to decline, and the village's products gradually became known. There is no railway station in the village.

People living here: 745people
Area: 165.48km²
Households: 376households
Rent (average for rentals): —
Healthcare: 0 hospitals ／ 2 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —2 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Borders 5 municipalities across 1 prefectures.

Umaji Village in Japan33.555°N 134.048°E

Territory of Umaji Village

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (N03)

North to south

18.8km

Kochi Prefecture: 安芸市, 北川村, 安田町
Tokushima Prefecture: 海陽町, 那賀町

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Umaji Village isthis kind of town.

01In the Senbonyama scenic forest in Yanase, Umaji, a named tree, Hachimaki-otoshi, stands beside the trailhead. The Forestry Agency writes that it got its name because you must look up so far to see the treetop that your headband falls from your head. Giant Yanase cedars stand all around.
02Konrinji Yakushi Hall and the former Yanase Forest Railway's Hirase Tunnel, Kawaguchi Tunnel and Ochiai Bridge are national Important Cultural Properties. At Yanase Maruyama Park, a Nomura-style locomotive is on working display.
03The village was founded as Umaji in 1889 (Meiji 22). It is also a village where full-scale yuzu growing began around 1963 (Showa 38), when forestry had started to decline.

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Umaji Village official site ↗Wikipedia ↗